What is Mistral small 3.1?
Introducing Mistral Small 3.1. Multimodal, Apache 2.0, outperforms Gemma 3 and GPT 4o-mini.
Problem
Developers and researchers using existing AI models like Gemma 3 and GPT 4o-mini face restrictive licensing and lower performance for multimodal tasks, limiting flexibility and scalability in AI applications
Solution
A multimodal AI model (Mistral Small 3.1) under Apache 2.0 license that enables users to process text, images, and code with higher benchmarks than competitors, e.g., outperforming GPT 4o-mini in reasoning tasks
Customers
AI developers, data scientists, and ML engineers building enterprise applications or startups requiring open-source, high-performance multimodal models
Unique Features
1. Apache 2.0 license for commercial freedom 2. Multimodal capabilities (text+image+code) 3. Top-tier performance in reasoning/coding benchmarks 4. Optimized for cost-efficiency in deployment
User Comments
Beats GPT-4o-mini on coding tasks
Apache license enables commercial use
Easy API integration
Superior image-text understanding
Cost-effective for startups
Traction
Launched 2024-07-16 on Product Hunt
Comparable to Mistral 7B (5M+ downloads)
Used by 150+ companies per website
Founder team (Mistral AI) raised $645M at $6B valuation
Market Size
The global generative AI market is projected to grow from $67.2B in 2024 to $1.3T by 2032 (Polaris Market Research)
